Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier novels ( The Unvanquished, The Last Frontier, Conceived in Liberty, Citizen Tom Paine), Author Fast established a reputation for giving history a square deal. But readers whose knowledge of Reconstruction is confined to textbook tales of carpetbaggers and scalawags will be astounded by his new thesis. Anticipating disbelief, Fast declares in an afterword that the truth of his story is documented, but "the very memory was expunged" by powerful forces which "did not hold it to be a good thing for the American people to know...
Tactical airmen, whose task is to blaze the way for troops on the ground, knew by now that they had done a job which would be a textbook model for all time. This pleased none of them more than their commander, big, brisk, breezy Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, R.A.F. For three years Air Marshal Coningham had set the pace for the trade...
...from other average men is the fact that he is a seasoned, expert newsman. 'His dispatches sound as artless as a letter, but other professionals are not deceived. They know that Ernie Pyle is a great reporter. Young would-be journalists could search far for a better textbook than his life and writings-a profitable study both of skills acquired and handicaps overcome...
...Book. The ist Division had the difficult task of maintaining a solid front with the British army on its flank. By the textbook, this was the most logical place for Rommel's strongest counterblow. Rommel followed the book...
...artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that none of his students could understand it. (In 1940, the Harvard Crimson termed his lectures "so poorly organized few freshmen know what he is driving at.") In his third book, The Need for Constitutional Reform, he boldly proposed to make over...